blow up vs fulminate

blow up is not a noun while fulminate is a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
blow up	No	No	Yes	No
fulminate	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, fulminate is a hyponym of blow up; that is, fulminate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blow up:

Other hyponyms of blow up include dynamite.

blow up (noun)	fulminate (noun)
	a salt or ester of fulminic acid

blow up (verb)	fulminate (verb)
make large	cause to explode violently and with loud noise
exaggerate or make bigger	come on suddenly and intensely
to swell or cause to enlarge	criticize severely
cause to burst with a violent release of energy
fill with gas or air
burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
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get very angry and fly into a rage